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Book SynopsisStrategic Project Organizing takes a unique approach to project management that places emphasis on the strategic and organizational aspects of projects and their leadership. Structured around the Three Domains model, it covers all the fundamental project management concepts, whilst guiding the reader through the organizational challenges of enabling positive change.Through the lens of strategic leadership, this text equips students to know how to respond proactively to threats, as well as seize opportunities, in order to advantageously change the socio-economic environment in an organization''s favour. The text also helps students to understand the tools and techniques adopted during the process of organizational transformation.All chapters offer review and discussion-based questions to encourage critical thinking; as well as case vignettes and a longer, end-of-chapter case study to help students apply theory to practice. Real life projects featured in the case studies include the Eden
Trade ReviewPerhaps the world's premier textbook on project organizing and strategy. If you would like to learn how organizations change through their investment projects and how they change the world we live in, this book is yours. Its focus on three domains and three interfaces of project organizing, and its unique 'project society' approach combine to make it a fascinating, down-to-earth, and useful reading on the art and science of projecting for students. * Lavagnon Ika, University of Ottowa *
This book is a must. It takes stock of the strategic, organizational aspects of projects and the leadership required by proposing to look at them under the lens of three domains. It allows students but also practitioners and academics to master these concepts. Brilliantly structured, it offers vignettes and other online resources to deepen these concepts and test your knowledge. I highly recommend it, the book is in itself is an interesting "Voyage of life"! * Nathalie Drouin, Université du Québec à Montréal; and University of Technology Sydney *
Strategic Project Organizing is a forward-thinking text that progresses our understanding of project management and must be read by students, project owners and suppliers alike. It provides a systemic look at the project profession, offering a new level of maturity that is currently missing from the content of many project management texts which seem to have difficulties moving away from the in-house, manufacturing-led, thinking of the 1950s. This text should be standard reading for any project management Masters course, as well as any modern MBA course that understands the increasing importance of project management." * Nicolas Lambrou, University of Westminster *
Strategic Project Organizing offers a unique take and focus on projects which provides a welcome alternative to other textbooks. With research-based insights for different members of project teams, it offers advanced discussion around projects, their role in our current world and the people managing and leading these projects." * Christine Unterhitzenberger, University of Leeds *
Table of Contents1: Introduction: projecting the modern world Part One: The Core Concepts of Strategic Project Organizing 2: The three domains of project organizing 3: Leading 4: Visioning and inventing Part Two: The Three Domains of Strategic Project Organizing 5: The owner domain 6: The supplier domain 7: The delivery domain Part Three: The Three Interfaces 8: The governance interface 9: The commercial interface 10: The resource interface Part Four: The Profession of Strategic Project Organizing 11: The core skills 12: Being a project leader
